Indiana Supreme Court

Chief Justice Brent Dickson has appointed Justices Steven David and Loretta H. Rush to serve as the Indiana Supreme Court’s
liaison representatives to the Court Improvement Program executive committee.

Indiana’s test case for school vouchers could have implications for other states, legal observers said after the state
Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a case that challenges the constitutionality of school vouchers.

The Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to just one case last week, taking a Bartholomew County ruling involving a tax
sale. The Indiana Court of Appeals in July held that Indiana Code 6.1-1-24-3(b) violates the 14th Amendment guarantee of due
process.

Gov. Mitch Daniels announced Monday that he has selected Faith Graham to sit as judge of Tippecanoe Superior Court III. She
succeeds Loretta Rush, who was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court in September and joined the high court this month.

Indiana Solicitor General Thomas Fisher on Wednesday urged the Indiana Supreme Court to uphold the state’s school choice
voucher program, arguing that it did not constitute an unconstitutional government support of religion.

Despite a professor’s claim that he was in a joyous mood when he interacted with a colleague and his actions were harmless,
the Indiana Supreme Court upheld his dismissal from his tenured teaching position.

Justice Loretta Rush is poised to take a leading position on matters of juvenile law and head a proposed Indiana Commission
on Children, according to an order of the Indiana Supreme Court issued Tuesday.

The Court of Appeals got it wrong when it reversed a trial court custody modification in favor of a child’s father,
the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Tuesday in one of the first opinions joined by Justice Loretta Rush.

In a divided per curiam opinion released Wednesday, the Indiana Supreme Court granted transfer to a case and agreed that a
man’s aggregate sentence for criminal recklessness and criminal mischief should be revised to four years.

Collecting more than a million “yes” votes each, Indiana Justices Steven David and Robert Rucker have been retained
in office. David faced opposition from some who disagreed with the majority opinion he authored regarding unlawful police
entry into homes.

Indiana’s newest justice has officially joined the state’s highest court. Loretta Rush had a private swearing
in ceremony Nov. 7. Her public ceremony will be held Dec. 28. Rush is just the second woman to serve on the state Supreme
Court.

The Indiana Supreme Court late Monday reconciled conflicting interpretations of the “bodily injury” requirement
for domestic battery and other criminal offenses using that language, concluding that any such offense that causes the victim
physical pain meets the test.

Three Indiana justices have decided that a Boone County attorney should be suspended for at least three years because his
repeated misconduct has “injured his clients” and “tarnished the reputation of the legal profession.”